Oil India (OIL) has signed a MoU with the University of Houston in a bid to augment its reserves base and maximize recovery from its ageing oilfields. The major focus of the MoU is collaboration in the areas of improved oil recovery and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for augmenting the production from matured fields, improvement in drilling and well intervention practices, seismic interpretation and reservoir characterization studies, and unconventional hydrocarbon studies.
Oil India, a Navratna Company, is Asia's oldest and biggest pioneer oil exploration and Production Company, while IOC is the largest enterprise in the country and the foremost ranked Fortune Global 500 Company in India and has presence in the complete hydrocarbon value chain from downstream refining & marketing, pipeline transportation, Petrochemicals, E&P and Gas Marketing.